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synonyms for hem and haw

  • back and fill
  • beat around the bush
  • beg the question
  • dance around
  • equivocate
  • euphemize
  • fudge and mudge
  • hum and haw
  • mince words
  • shilly-shally
  • tapdance
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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hem and haw, such as: back and fill, beat around the bush, beg the question, dance around, equivocate, and euphemize.

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How to use hem and haw in a sentence

She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
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No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
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Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
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They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
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He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.
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He paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.
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When the orange-and-red banner was actually replaced by the Stars and Stripes, many in the crowd shed tears.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
The exhaust-valve is exactly as when it was put in, worked by a rack-and-tooth segment.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICK
We had no more than got fairly between the straight-up-and-down walls of it than Piegan halted us with a warning hand.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
The steady use of the organ for an hour-and-a-half's choir rehearsal would exhaust the batteries.
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WORDS RELATED TO HEM AND HAW

  • balk
  • cavil
  • challenge
  • combat
  • complain
  • deprecate
  • disapprove
  • dispute
  • doubt
  • fight
  • hem and haw
  • hesitate
  • object
  • oppose
  • pause
  • protest
  • pussyfoot
  • refuse
  • remonstrate
  • resist
  • scruple
  • shy
  • stick
  • stickle
  • strain
  • take exception
  • vacillate
  • wait and see
  • waver
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